After watching the debate he sounds better suited to be finance director. His only focus was numbers. To be mayor one needs to have a community vision. There is more to our city than just numbers. We are people!

Wendy had ideas and shared her vision. I love the idea of a youth council and the mayor having open office hours like college professors.

Carey Davis missed the largest part of the equation which is us … people. Wendy gets it and she gets my vote.

— Brad Waltrip, San Bernardino

McCammack comes up short by comparison

San Bernardino is bankrupt. The terrible financial situation in which the city presently finds itself requires difficult, often harmful fiscal restraint. How do our mayoral candidates propose to deal with this?

Which of our candidates has a plan for how to go about getting our city out of its most serious financial disaster in its history?

Which of our candidates is a CPA with extensive financial experience as a controller of a major national corporation?

Which of them has been responsible for successful, multimillion dollar budgets?

Which of them has been responsible for budgets leading to insolvency?

Which of them has acted in disregard of multiple financial warnings of insolvency by city management and paid professional advisors?

Which of them has received major financial support from groups and then voted for substantial increases in their salaries and benefits?

Which of our candidates has been recalled from her City Council position by vote of the residents she had been responsible for representing?

I leave it up to you to answer these and other relevant questions and then decide how to vote. For me the decision is easy. I’m supporting and voting for Carey Davis.

— Phil Savage, San Bernardino

The most ethical administration of all time?

I want to suggest to the author of “Scandals are many in Obama administration” (Jan. 3), if anyone feels the need to list “scandals” in a twice-elected president’s administration, they probably aren’t scandals but the opposition party’s transparent propaganda.

Unless you live in a right-wing bubble, you’d be embarrassed by the desperation the Republicans have exhibited in manufacturing these fake outrages, and you’d understand why the vast majority of Americans ignore them.

The Obama administration is arguably the most ethical administration of all time when you take into account all the scrutiny the modern-day media lords over the sausage-making grind that is American politics.

— Chris Edwards, Redlands

No need for us to know actual Christmas date

Re the Jan. 8 letter in response to Mr. S. Nasir’s letter about the date of Christmas:

I agree with the writer that it really doesn’t matter when Jesus was actually born. Many people have tried to come up with a date (like Dec. 25, or August-something) and have been creative in explaining why that date (the Roman sun god’s birthday, the ninth month after Jesus’ assumed conception/incarnation, the verses in the Quran).

But in the Bible, God didn’t have any of the writers give a date for Jesus’ birth; so, it is not necessary for us to know it. We Christians should in fact be celebrating Jesus’ incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection every day.